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DER YIDDISH-VINKL October 24, 2003
With the High Holy Days behind us, it seems timely to recall a little story in Ruth Levitan’s ever entertaining collection titled “Lakh a Bisl, Lakh a Sakh.” The English translation is by Gus Tyler. Yom Toyvim A goy hot zikh amol megayer geven. S’iz grade geven in mitn vinter. Az s’iz gekumen Rosh-Khoydesh Shvat,…
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Tour of U.S. Schools Reveals Why Zionism Is Flunking on Campus
When I got to Rutgers University in New Jersey last month, I almost forgot I was on a college campus. The atmosphere was far from the cool, button-down academic reserve typical of such institutions. It was more reminiscent of a battlefield. My arrival was greeted by a noisy demonstration of Palestinian and Jewish students holding…
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Organizers of Initiative Seek U.S. Support
WASHINGTON — The leaders of an Israeli-Palestinian grassroots peace initiative came to Washington this week seeking support for their undertaking to revive peace efforts on the basis of mutually accepted principles to guide a final settlement between the parties. The two leaders of the initiative, Ami Ayalon, former head of Israel’s Shin Bet general security…
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Dems Mock GOP On Barbour Gaffe In Southern Race
A Republican gubernatorial candidate’s visit to the fundraiser of an allegedly racist group, and his subsequent defense of the appearance, has Democrats mocking White House efforts to woo Jewish voters. Haley Barbour, a Washington lobbyist and former chairman of the Republican National Committee who is running for governor of Mississippi, politicked at a July 19…
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Groups Rap Mahathir, ADL Rips Chirac
With Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad standing by his claims that Jews rule the world, Israeli leaders and Jewish groups say they are stepping up efforts to organize a “global rejection” of the Asian leader’s remarks. Israeli Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs Natan Sharansky issued a statement Wednesday announcing that the night before he…
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Swiss Bank Scandal Gets Hearing in Israeli Court
Israel’s Supreme Court is expected to hold a hearing November 6 on a complaint filed against several of Israel’s top financial authorities that accuses them of failing to investigate a multimillion-dollar scam by the Swiss subsidiary of Bank Leumi, Israel’s second-largest bank. Two foundations representing Israeli and French citizens are citing the supervisor of banks,…
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Activist Pushes for Senate Action
WASHINGTON — A leading activist from Israel’s Peace Now movement last week urged the Senate to help stop Jewish settlement activity in the territories and prevent Israel’s security fence from cutting through the West Bank. The director of Peace Now’s Settlement Watch Project, Dror Etkes, told the Senate Subcommittee for Near Eastern and South Asian…
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Scholars: Article on Hitler House Shows Press Failure on Holocaust
More than 60 scholars signed a petition this week calling on a British magazine to release a 1938 article that cheerfully described Adolf Hitler’s summer house. The scholars say the article is an important example of the press’s failure to cover the Holocaust accurately . The article, “At Home With Hitler,” which was published in…
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Peace Now Project Keeps an Eye on Settlements
MIGRON, West Bank — As head of Peace Now’s Settlement Watch Project, Dror Etkes is charged with taking note of everything that happens in the territories: the expansion of every existing settlement, the paving of every new road and, especially, the placement of every new shipping container or trailer on a new piece of land,…
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A Lone Cowboy Rides Roughshod Over Racism
OAKLAND, Calif. — The parade rolled into downtown Oakland last Saturday just as it does every year, a long, undulating chain of youth groups and dance troupes, drill teams and color guards — and, of course, the cowboys. Some ride solo, others in posses, their horses clip-clopping past office buildings. They smiled as they tipped…
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Immigrants in Their Own Words
Warren Lehrer was struggling with a book of short stories called “Leap” during the spring of 1999. They were about people whose lives were about to undergo tremendous change. At the time he was assisting his wife, Judith Sloan, in a storytelling workshop at Forest Hills High School for which the students interviewed immigrants living…
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